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" The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. "

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" It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else. "

" I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction. "

" I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves. "

" I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. "

" I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it. "

" We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot. "

" I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. "

" I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians. "

" I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner. "

" As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is. "

" I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up. "

" For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on. "

" I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school. "

" When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band. "

" After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way. "

" We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual. "

" When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it. "

" All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. "

" It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves. "

" I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess. "

" You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions. "

" With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing. "

" Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it. "

" I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am. "

" A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school. "

" I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. "

" Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. "

" The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people. "